
36 destinations to explore in Italy.
3043 activities
Italy is a country of cities, and they are not alike. Rome, Florence and Venice each fit into a day on foot; Naples and Palermo ask you to accept their disorder; the north runs at a pace that has little to do with the south.
The high-speed line joining Milan, Bologna, Florence, Rome and Naples is the spine of almost every trip. Anything off it — Puglia, Sicily, the lakes — is done by car or not at all.
01RomeItaly346 activities
02FlorenceItaly340 activities
03VeniceItaly336 activities
04BolognaItaly324 activities
05NaplesItaly319 activities
06MilanItaly318 activities
07VeronaItaly298 activities
08TurinItaly237 activities
09AmalfiItaly228 activities
10PisaItaly164 activities
11SorrentoItaly24 activities
12Vatican CityItaly19 activities
13PompeiiItaly18 activities
14PositanoItaly18 activities
15SalernoItaly9 activities
16Lake GardaItaly8 activities
17Lake ComoItaly5 activities
18Langhe-Roero and MonferratoItaly5 activities
19CapriItaly4 activities
20BuranoItaly2 activities
21Lake MaggioreItaly2 activities
22LuccaItaly2 activities
23Monterosso al MareItaly2 activities
24PaduaItaly2 activities
25SienaItaly2 activities
26BasilicataItaly1 activity
27BergamoItaly1 activity
28FernoItaly1 activity
29Montecatini TermeItaly1 activity
30ParmaItaly1 activity
31Piedmont & LiguriaItaly1 activity
32TrentoItaly1 activity
33TrevisoItaly1 activity
34TriesteItaly1 activity
35VenetoItaly1 activity
36VicenzaItaly1 activityThe Uffizi and the Accademia in Florence, the Vatican Museums and the Borghese in Rome, the Last Supper in Milan — that one weeks ahead — and Pompeii in summer. Nearly all run on timed entry, which means arriving without a ticket is not a wait but a refusal.
August. The heat is real in the central and southern cities, and Italians close up and leave themselves. April to May and September to October are the two windows where weather, opening hours and crowds agree with each other.
At the ancient sites, yes: the Forum, Pompeii, Ostia and the Valley of the Temples are ruins legible only to someone who knows what is missing. In museums a guide mostly buys the time slot. For a city, a two-hour walk on the first day is what makes the rest of the days self-sufficient.